> Hallo,
>
> Given the idiosyncrasies of the greek of the Gospel of Matthew, is
> it possible to make general statements about the structure of
> Biblical Greek/Koine Greek/Hellenistic based on data from
> Matthew's Gospel? (I suspect that some may say so, but before I
> can say that Matthew's greek is not a true reflection of spoken
> greek of the 1st century A.D., we have to define/describe the
> properties of spoken greek in 1st century Palestine.)
> In the end the question could simply be "What kind of
> generalizations could be made referring to data from the Gospel of
> Matthew?"

This makes the assumption that the Matthean scribe hailed
from 1st century Palestine. More than likely He was a Greek
speaking diaspora Jew in Syria...likely Antioch.